This is pretty much awesome.

... Built by a MechE Ph.D. with (I presume) too much time and money on his hands:

http://ronpatrickstuff.com/

Schneier: "Cory Doctorow wanted a secret decoder wedding ring, and he asked me to help design it."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/2817314740/http://www.schneier.com/

Via Nate Lawson's blog, TEMPEST: A Signal Problem is a recently declassified NSA document on the history of "compromising radiations from communications and Comsec equipment." Unfortunately, big chunks are still redacted, but there are still a couple pages worth of interesting reading there.

I, and a great many people I know, think like this.

Wired is carrying a small photo gallery of One Wilshire.

This big. (h/t my best friend from back in the day.)

Somebody over at Veracode has found the only valid measurement of code quality.

h/t Emergent Chaos

Because I can't climb for three hours straight, my shift at the rock wall included reading "Characterizing Residential Broadband Networks" (Dischinger et al., in Proc. IMC 2007). It's not the best-written paper ever, but their results are fascinating (at least if you're a networks geek and/or care why you get the performance that you do from your ( Read more... )

Along the lines of The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army, I give you 1025 Things Mr Welch Can No Longer Do in an RPG, e.g. "92. The name of the weapon shop is not 'Bloodbath and Beyond'." Also, bonus points for repeated The Last Starfighter references.